Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonising decision. Despite the memories the house holds, and the exquisite garden she has spent twenty-five years creating, the house is crumbling around her, and Posy knows the time has come to sell it.Then a face appears from the past - Freddie, her first love, who abandoned her and left her heartbroken fifty years ago. Already struggling to cope with her son Sam's inept business dealings, and the sudden reappearance of her younger son Nick after ten years in Australia, Posy is reluctant to trust in Freddie's renewed affection. And unbeknown to Posy, Freddie - and Admiral House - have a devastating secret to reveal
Posy Montague nærmer seg sytti, men bor fortsatt på familiens vakre eiendom, Admiral House, der hun tilbrakte en lykkelig barndom og fanget sommerfugler sammen med sin far. Det var også her hun oppdro sine egne barn. Til tross for de gode minnene og den vakre hagen, er huset i ferd med å forfalle, og Posy vet at tiden er inne for å ta den vanskelige avgjørelsen om å selge. Så dukker plutselig Freddie opp. Han var hennes store kjærlighet som forlot henne femti år tilbake. Posy er skeptisk til Freddies fornyede interesse, men det hun ikke vet, er at både han og Admiral House skjuler en hemmelighet. Boken inngår i BS engelsk bestselgerabonnement. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.
